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Meteren, Emanuel De

a protestant historian, was
born at AntwerpJuly 9, 1535. His father, Jacob de Meteren, was of Balda; his mother, Ortelia, was the daughter
of William Ortelis, or Ortelius, of Augsburgh, grandfather of the celebrated geographer, Abraham Ortelins.
He was carefully educated in the languages and sciences,
and when a youth, is reported to have attempted to translate the Bible into English, which, says Bullart, made his
religious principles to be suspected. His father, who had
embraced the protestant religion, being obliged to take
refuge in England, took this son with him, and gave him
the choice of continuing his studies, or embarking in commerce. Emanuel, having preferred the latter, was sent to
Antwerp, and engaged with a merchant in that city, where
he continued about ten years, but his father had not the
happiness to witness his progress, as he and his wife were
drowned in their passage from Antwerp to London. Emanuel, during his residence at Antwerp, after this disaster,
employed his leisure hours in collecting information respecting the history of the Netherlands; and having acquired the confidence of various persons of eminence in
the government, he succeeded in obtaining much secret
history of the times, which he published under the title of
“Historia rerum potissimum in Belgio gestarum,” &c. It
appears that he had sent some copies of this work in German to a friend, who was to procure engravings for it, but
who caused it to be printed for his own benefit in Latin
and German, yet with the name of the author, whose reputation he did not value so much as the profits of the
work. Meteren, on hearing this, procured an order from
the States to suppress this edition, which is dated 1599,
| and afterwards published it himself. He was enabled to
revisit London again in the reign of JamesI. as consul for
the Flemings. In this office he acquitted himself with
spirit and ability, and wrote an ample volume of the treaties of commerce which formerly subsisted betwixt the
English nation, the house of Burgundy, and the states of
Holland. He died at London, April 8, 1612, and was
interred in the church of St. Dionis Back-Church, Fenchurch-street, where his relict erected a monument to his
memory, which was destroyed in the great fire.1

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